Editorial special issue: Multiscale simulation of heterogeneous materials and coupling of thermodynamic models

This special issue follows a workshop on ‘‘Multiscale simulation of heterogeneous materials and coupling of thermodynamic models’’, which was organized at K.U. Leuven, Belgium on January 12–14, 2011. The goal of the workshop was to bring together experts in the fields of multi-scale thermodynamic modeling and computational multi-scale techniques. Both communities treat the same phenomena and applications. Nevertheless, they use different approaches and have a different scientific focus.status: publishe